Author: Garry Smith
Call of Duty fans are spending £30 on codes for an in-game Burger King skin. The fast food chain is currently running a promotion where a Call of Duty meal can be bought, offering a free in-game Operator Skin (a t-shirt of the fictional Burger Town) and one hour of double xp for Modern Warfare 2. Codes for these in-game extras are now being sold on eBay, with most sold listings ranging from around £20 to £40 and (amusingly) not always including postage. Some are even higher. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 does not have an exclusive game mode for PlayStation owners, in contrast to the last game in the series. As part of Sony’s agreement with Activision, Call of Duty games since 2015 had exclusive content for PlayStation owners, including game modes. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) had a timed exclusive survival mode in Spec Ops, while Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War had an exclusive Zombies mode called Onslaught. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with…
Modern Warfare 2 had its full release today, and it has already trounced all other Call of Duty releases on Steam. At the time of writing, there are currently 154,297 players battling it out with Captain Price and co (via SteamDB). Meanwhile, the game’s current all-time player peak is sitting at a lofty 238,522 after just a few hours. It’s currently the fifth most played game on Steam, behind the perennial Counter-Strike, Dota 2, PUBG: Battlegrounds, and Apex Legends. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes…
10 years after its introduction, Steam’s Big Picture mode has received a long overdue overhaul, with Valve finally making good on last year’s promise to replace the ageing UI with its decidedly more modern Steam Deck interface – albeit initially only for testing prior to a general release. Steam’s Big Picture mode first surfaced back in 2012, introducing an optional new UI for Valve’s storefront specifically designed for use with televisions and controllers. It’s changed in barely noticeable increments since then, lagging far behind Valve’s recent major overhaul for Steam’s desktop mode, but as of today, it’s out with the…
It’s all looking a bit Sonic the Hedgehog as the year nears its end; not only does the blue streak make his video game return next month in Sonic Frontiers, Netflix has confirmed its 3D animated series Sonic Prime is hitting the streaming service on Thursday, 15th December. Sonic Prime was announced last February, after a bit of a premature reveal toward the end of 2020, with Netflix promising a 24-episode series that would send Sonic on a “journey of self-discovery and redemption” in which the “fate of a strange new multiverse” was in his hands. Since then, we’ve had…
Gotham Knight’s performance woes on consoles continue to cause controversy, with many worried that it’s the first title to signal a resurgence in 30fps gaming for the latest console hardware. The PC version – with its adjustable settings, hardware monitoring and the ability to switch out hardware – allows us to pick apart the issues, separate them, and get a better idea of what what makes this game tick. In doing so, we should be able to answer why frame-rates are capped at 30fps on consoles. The bottom line is that this game has severe CPU utilisation problems that almost…
Pioneering Sega developer Rieko Kodama has passed away at the age of 58.A memorial message for her was spotted in the credits of the Mega Drive Mini 2 and later confirmed by Sega producer Yosuke Oskunari.Sega subsequently confirmed Kodama passed back in May, but was unable to share details in respect to her family, as reported by IGN. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Striking Distance and publisher Krafton have announced the Japanese version of upcoming space-horror The Callisto Protocol has been cancelled. This is due to the game’s violent content, which means it was unable to secure an age rating with the CERO (Japan’s equivalent of PEGI in Europe and the ESRB in North America). The developer has stated those who pre-ordered this version of the game will receive a full refund for their purchase. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
Physical copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 contain a disc with just 70MB of data inside. Players who received a copy slightly earlier than tomorrow’s official multiplayer release are reporting that the disc contains almost no data and is accompanied by a hefty data download. The latest pre-release update balloons the game to a massive 150GB, which does not yet include Warzone 2.0. Read more Source – eurogamer.net All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.
BioWare has revealed Dragon Age: Dreadwolf – the latest instalment in its fantasy role-playing series – has now reached the alpha stage of development and is playable “to the very end”. That news was shared in a new developer blog post celebrating the alpha milestone. “Up to this point, we’ve been working hard on the various parts of the game, but it’s not until the alpha milestone that a game all comes together,” the developer explained. “Now, for the first time, we can experience the entire game, from the opening scenes of the first mission to the very end,” it…